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Frankly, my first temptation was to ignore the overload warning for fear of missing something by joining another instance.

I think many non tech savvy users won’t understand how Lemmy works and just give up trying to understand how to signup. Plus some instances have a form and users are waitlisted. I think that’s the biggest con of Lemmy.

Well I made an account 10 days ago when the traffic was much less because the devs of Lemmy had just started advertising the site on Reddit.

Yes, I try to comment on posts because it’ll increase the engagement of the site and new comers wouldn’t feel that it’s empty.

This is great. I hope other devs follow the same. Really gonna miss Apollo though. One of the last days I’m going to use that Open in Apollo extension. :/

So while the masses might still show up to reddit, it’s entirely possible that the quality of the content will take a nosedive anyway.

This. This is highly likely and if this happens, Reddit will be soon reduced to something like Quora. Still will be Google’s favourite, but won’t have the quality content and/or the community it needs to become what it once was.

Added!
We need more userscripts to make Lemmy better on mobile.

IMO lurkers that just browse Reddit just for getting answers to something they were searching on Google will obviously continue using the app. For them this won’t matter, and they constitute the majority of the Reddit user-base.

I guess most of the Third Party App users are somewhat tech savvy and understand that their official app is a total piece of shit. But as you said, Reddit is okay with losing these somewhat small amount of users.